Critical reflections on the benefits of ICT in education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5817145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonia Livingstone (0000-0002-3248-9862, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-24 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Review of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-4985 • E-ISSN: 1465-3915 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03054985.2011.577938 |
| OpenAlex | W2101817546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 76 |
| References cited | 17 |
In both schools and homes, information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely seen as enhancing learning, this hope fuelling their rapid diffusion and adoption throughout developed societies. But they are not yet so embedded in the social practices of everyday life as to be taken for granted, with schools proving slower to change their lesson plans than they were to fit computers in the classroom. This article examines two possible explanations - first, that convincing evidence of improved learning outcomes remains surprisingly elusive, and second, the unresolved debate over whether ICT should be conceived of as supporting delivery of a traditional or a radically different vision of pedagogy based on soft skills and new digital literacies. The difficulty in establishing traditional benefits, and the uncertainty over pursuing alternative benefits, raises fundamental questions over whether society really desires a transformed, technologically-mediated relation between teacher and learner. Keywords: ICTlearning outcomesdigital technologyevidence base Acknowledgements Thanks are due to the ESRC for funding the seminar series, The educational and social impact of new technologies on young people in Britain. This article draws on material published by the author in Children and the Internet (Polity Press, 2009) and has benefited from discussions with John Coleman, Claire Crawford, Chris Davies, Shirley Dex, Keri Facer, Bingchun Meng, Shani Orgad, Don Passey, Neil Selwyn and Ros Sutherland. Vanessa Pittard from Becta kindly provided the figures on ICT expenditure and Yinhan Wang provided editorial support. Notes 1. Quotes from the UK children go online project (Livingstone, Citation2009). 2. For example, Becta's Raising standards booklet quotes as 'facts and figures' that '95% of teachers believe that the use of technology is raising standards in schools and colleges' (January 2010). 3. For example, a recent survey of European teachers' views on teaching creativity lists computers, educational software, videos, online collaborative tools, virtual learning environments, interactive whiteboards, online free material, online courses, music/photo/video content, blogs, social networking sites, podcasts, bookmarking and tagging, RSS feeds, digital games and mobile phones (European Commission, Citation2009
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